Dan Rather stepped down last night after 24 years anchoring the CBS Evening News. His rise to fame, his liberal bias, and his fall have long been chronicled, before and during the Internet era.

Now Rather is yesterday’s news. Unlike how this and other blogs have been portrayed by the liberal media, we will not be spending the days and years to come feasting on his corpse. Well, I won’t. It’s over. It’s there on the photographic memory of the Internet — I don’t need to remind people of it day in and day out.

So as for Rathergate.com, there is an ocean of liberal media bias out there that needs to be challenged, and we are up to the task.

First of all, Memogate is not over. More and more is uncovered each day behind what happened. A CBS executive sued over her post-fiasco demotion the day Rather said goodbye. Another has hired an attorney and wants to clear his name.

We are not the Media Research Center or Accuracy in Media. Mike and I cannot be a full-time staff dedicated to exposing liberal bias. But my job here is not to be an encyclopedia. It is to keep you people, our readers, appraised of how bad the problem is, and marshal you all to be part of the solution.

And the American public has proven it can be a potent force when it comes to media balance. The blogs made enough noise over the forged memos to make the MSM notice. The public kept the heat on CNN news chief Eason Jordan, forcing him to resign over slanderous and false accusations that U.S. troops were intentionally killing journalists. The public dragged the MSM against its will into covering the Swift Boat Vets’ accusations against John Kerry.

This site since is inception has had 338,945 unique visitors and more than 6.4 million hits. And we are just one small part of the effort — on the left, center and right — to keep the press humble.

Rather was a chapter. His fall over Memogate was one small part of the big picture. So we move on. Next week we will mark our first “Sunshine on the Media Week” to lobby for press accounability.

As the year draws to a close, we will hold the second annual Mapes Awards and the first annual Coleman Awards for bad reporting and blog slander.

We are keeping the name “Rathergate,” as it marks a true media watershed moment. And we are not going anywhere.